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Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers. The result is a ...

I am using redis into my project using chef. We are creating server automation, so everything is done using chef recipe's only. I have installed php-redis using chef. Now I need to add two variables ...

I have a self-hosted Chef server. I can knife upload to that server, and otherwise interact with it. Therefore, my knife.rb works fine. I have recently parameterized a cookbook in order to make it the ...

I would like to use AWS placement groups in order to decrease latency between my front-end server and back-end servers in a particular availability zone.
We use the Chef orchestration layer Ironfan, ...

How would you configure a VM so that it will automatically register with a chef server?
I know that I could use knife bootstrap, however that is very tedious if you are starting dozens of servers at ...

Hello I'm reading this howto:
https://github.com/imoglobe/opsworks-cookbooks/blob/master/user/README.md
but it does not mention where to put the data bag in the cookbook with the list of users in json ...

I am using hosted chef environment in windows.I need to update the attribute file during each chef client run. Currently ,I update it manually and upload the cookbook in chef server.Is there any way ...

I have a master machine I just upgraded from Chef 11 to Chef 12, but when I go to create a new EC2 node it want to install client 11.18 instead of 12.01 or 12.03. I'm not sure if that's causing the ...

Chef has the official AWS cookbook (https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/aws), which allows for spinning up of AWS resources, as well as updating of resource tags.
Can the custom resources introduced ...

I am switching from chef-solo to chef-client -z (--local-mode) for running chef on my machines because of an issue that I've seen recently with chef-solo in version 12. I have one spot in one of my ...

I'm using the knife-vsphere plugin for chef to interact with our vsphere hosts.
As part of the config for the knife-vsphere plugin it seems that you have to enter a plain text password which I think ...

We have a set of Chef servers whose node data we integrate with data outside of Chef. Currently we use a batch sync process to read nodes out of Chef and then push the data into the data integration ...

I'm attempting to get an existing Drupal site set up using Vagrant Drupal Development but have come across a few problems.
My first is that I cannot seem to connect to the database to import my SQL ...

Does anyone know to to retrieve chef node configs from an open source chef server? I need to move node configs that where managed by an old chef server (cloud instance) that didn't update properly to ...

In my runlist for one of my nodes, I have "recipe[logstash::server]". When I run chef-client on the node, the following error is thrown:
The following cookbooks are required by the client but don't ...

I just set up a new Chef environment as I'm currently expanding my knowledge of Chef. I have a Key Pair set up on EC2, I have my Knife configuration set up. When I attempt to spawn a server, the node ...

I'm using template to generate a file. When the app on the server starts, it re-writes the file - the content doesn't change, but Chef considers it as changed and during next run it re-writes it as ...

A few hours ago all my OpsWorks stacks started failing to update_custom_cookbooks. They are all failing on "Install the cookbooks specified in the Berksfile and their dependencies" with the error: in ...